The 16th Biathlon World Championships were held in 1978 in Hochfilzen, Austria.^[1]

Men's results

20 km individual

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Odd Lirhus	NOR	1	1:05:25.3
	Frank Ullrich	GDR	2	1:05:37.7
	Eberhard Rösch	GDR	2	1:06:04.2

10 km sprint

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	Frank Ullrich	GDR	0	32:17.4
	Eberhard Rösch	GDR	0	32:38.1
	Klaus Siebert	GDR	0	33:02.8

4 × 7.5 km relay

Medal	Name	Nation	Penalties	Result
	East Germany Manfred Beer Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	GDR
	Norway Tor Svendsberget Roar Nilsen Odd Lirhus Sigleif Johansen	NOR
	West Germany Heinrich Mehringer Hans Estner Andreas Schweiger Gerd Winkler	FRG

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	East Germany	2	2	2	6
2	Norway	1	1	0	2
3	West Germany	0	0	1	1